Foreign daughter-in-law speaks Ningbo dialect

"I'd rather listen to Suzhou people quarreling than Ningbo people talking." What I said is that Ningbo dialect is difficult to understand and ugly.

As a foreign daughter-in-law, I feel this more deeply.

I remember the first time I took a male ticket to Ningbo to see my in-laws. I thought my in-laws were enthusiastic, kind and impeccable, but when I talked in a dialect, I suddenly felt embarrassed and couldn't understand anything. I even want to guess. No original syllables can be found in the discussion. Of course, now I can basically understand accessibility. But one of my male colleagues was so sad that he found a wife in Ningbo. Because he didn't know the dialect, he still dared not visit relatives after many years of marriage. Sitting there listening to relatives chatting is a sense of helplessness that seems to have been abandoned by the whole world.

When I first came to Ningbo, I made a lot of jokes because I didn't understand dialects. Once, I was visiting Yuehu Park with a male ticket, and suddenly an aunt rushed up and grabbed my hand. "Help me, will you kiss me?" This, this, this, aunt, we don't know each other well. How much do you like me? You have to kiss me when you come up. Just as she was stunned, she raised the camera in her hand, and the male ticket came up and explained, "She wants you to help her take pictures of them by the camera." Oh, the word "press" in Ningbo dialect means "press" and pronounce "pro".

Another time, when I was waiting for the bus in the cold wind, I watched the girls coming and going wearing fashionable clothes pass by, and the uncle next to me muttered, "These little girls, who wear glasses in cold weather, are worse than thieves." I feel disgusted in my heart and call names. This is disrespect for the elderly! Later, I learned that "Little Niang Bi" means little girl in Ningbo dialect, and it is often used to address little girls as relatives of old people. Although the words are ugly, they are colorless.

There is a Beilun District in Ningbo, where there is a famous Beilun Port. The local people introduced to the guests: "You can't go, you can't talk." The guest is puzzled: "Why can't you go? You can't talk?"? Keep it a secret from us? " In Ningbo dialect, "Beilun" is pronounced as "no", and "Hong Kong" is homophonic with "Shuo".

In my opinion, the key to truly integrate into Ningbo is to be able to listen and eat. Today, according to my married life in Ningbo, I will talk about my personal views on Ningbo dialect. There are inevitably some shortcomings. In order to show the tolerance of Ningbo people, please don't spray or lightly spray the locals. My little daughter thanked me first.

Du Niang's explanation for Ningbo dialect is that it belongs to Wu dialect, a Chinese language in wuyue in the Spring and Autumn Period, which has a great influence on Shanghai dialect. From life, it is found that due to the influence of population mobility and the popularization of Putonghua, the frequency of use of some local dialects has gradually decreased and gradually lost. At weddings, the emcee also likes to let guests guess the true meaning of some dialects. When some older guests guessed the right answer, others also lifted the wedding atmosphere with knowing smiles. Generally speaking, it has the following characteristics:

One is vivid.

Prefer to use prefix adjectives: red with blood red, "the sun sets blood red in the morning"; Green is green, "the rape in the field is green"; White with snow white, bright with sparkle, sweet with honey, … and so on. There are a few words that are particularly interesting, and I want to laugh every time: the stool is a low stool, "this high and low stool is not easy to sit on"; Pigs are birds and dead birds. "Take this wild vegetable to the birds and pigs"; The dog is a yellow dog, "this black and yellow dog" ...

I like to use reduplication. Other dialects also include "fairy house", "darkness", "shivering with cold" and "chubby", which are easy to understand. But some suffixes overlap infrequently: "soft", "hard" and "wax yellow". wait for

The second is flip chip.

When we learn English, this is the inversion of grammar. The usual greeting is "Have you eaten?" Fire calls fire, screws call screws, popsicles call popsicles, and guests call guests. "When the family comes, eat the popsicles first, and I will fry the snails."

The third is foreign style.

As one of the "five-port trading cities", there are many words with the word "foreign": doll, "Uncle Allah brought a foreign girl from Shanghai", rickshaw, rickshaw, "Uncle Allah pulled a rickshaw", foreign bubbles, balloons and "a little stubborn (boy) is blowing.

There are many foreign words. Mosaic, small tiles. "Some mosaics have fallen off the exterior wall of the house", company guests, sticks and crutches. "Where are all the guests from Grandpa's company?" Vitamins, vitamins. Not good at nutrition, buy eye vitamins to eat.

Pronunciation is like a foreign language. I once visited my husband's grandparents. Husband talked about the recent high incidence of bird flu and advised grandma not to raise chickens at home. The 80-year-old grandmother shook her head and said firmly, "No!" Does grandma know English? It turns out that if you don't say "no" in dialect, it sounds exactly the same as English. In addition, the pronunciation of "you" in one or two is exactly the same as that in Japanese two, and there are "Dai ~" and "Wai ~" in daily syllables. I remember when I was in college, the male ticket called home, and my classmates were stupid. They are just speaking Japanese!

The fourth is extreme.

I like to decorate it with some extreme adverbs of degree. Hunger must be "starvation", whether it is a little hungry or really hungry, wrestling must be "death", whether it is just a little dust on your body or really hitting your head, saying that a person is not good, "the difference can't be worse"! There is also a funny dialect that describes a person as stupid, "stupid enough to get along" and stupid enough to shit in Mandarin!

I'm busy, and I can't finish summing it up for a while. I'll add it next time I think of it.